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Selecting the Right Deployment Settings for Pre-Caching

By Johan Arwidmark / October 14, 2019

When deploying task sequences with the purpose of pre-caching of content – for example before a large application roll-out, or Windows 10 servicing (Inplace upgrade – you better pick the right settings, or you'll find that the clients may download the same content twice. The trick to pre-caching is to make sure the content ends […]

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Configuring the BranchCache Publication Hash Cache

By Johan Arwidmark / September 14, 2019

For those of you using BranchCache, for example to reduce the network impact Windows 10 will have on your environment, I highly recommend changing the size and default for the BranchCache Publication Cache. Why you ask? Well, the default settings are just not good enough. Background Info In the Windows 10 era, especially when starting […]

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Detecting Wired, Wireless, and VPN Connections using PowerShell

By Johan Arwidmark / September 2, 2019

In a recent customer project we needed to detect whether the clients where connected via Wired, Wireless (WiFi) and/or VPN. This was a decent sized environment, about 50K clients, with hardware models from both HP, Dell, and Lenovo. The existing code I had did not work across all the hardware, so I reached out to […]

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Using Delivery Optimization In-Network Cache (DOINC) in ConfigMgr

By Johan Arwidmark / August 16, 2019

Exciting times! ConfigMgr TP 1903 was just released and so the very first public beta of Delivery Optimization In-Network Cache (DOINC), nicely integrated with ConfigMgr. Here is a link to the documentation for ConfigMgr TP 1903: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/get-started/2019/technical-preview-1903

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You get what you pay for – Using NVMe disks in a lab

By Johan Arwidmark / February 1, 2019

In my personal labs, and in our classroom labs, we’ve been using Samsung NVMe SSD Pro and Evo disks (950/960/070) for many years with good result. But when Amazon announced a dang good deal, moneywise, just before Christmas, on Crucial NVMe SSD’s (the CT1000P1SSD8 – Crucial P1 1TB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD), I could not stop myself and asked my manager to order 15 of them, so we could upgrade the remaining classroom hosts from 512 GB to 1 TB. Shiny idea, right?

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Using Nested Task Sequences in MDT 8456 Lite Touch

By Johan Arwidmark / January 26, 2019

One of the new features in MDT 8456 (Lite Touch) is the support for nested task sequences. That’s very useful when you have multiple task sequences using a common block of actions, such us a BIOS configuration block, drivers configuration block, applications block etc..

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Setup Low Extra Delay Background Transport (LEDBAT) for ConfigMgr

By Johan Arwidmark / July 12, 2018

LEDBAT, or Windows LEDBAT as the Microsoft implementation of it is called, is yet another option to reduce the impact Windows 10, and other software distribution, will have on your network. This feature is currently available on Windows Server, version 1709 or later, and requires Windows 10 v1607 or later on the client side. Hopefully the feature will be backported to Windows Server 2016 too (it’s technically already there, but disabled, and in the need of a bug fix).

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Windows 10 and TPM 2.0

By Johan Arwidmark / June 29, 2018

Starting with Windows 10 v1607, OEMs like Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. are required to support TPM 2.0 for new machines certified for Windows 10. Exceptions apply for special purpose commercial systems, as well as custom orders, or machines delivered with a custom image from the customer, but anyway.

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Windows 10 Servicing Script – Creating the better In-Place upgrade image

By Johan Arwidmark / June 27, 2018

When doing Windows 10 Servicing, meaning going from one Windows 10 version to the next, it makes absolute sense to do that upgrade using an already updated image. In this post you find a script that does exactly that. This image can obviously also be used for the image you use if upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (for the few orgs that does).

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